Amazon.co.jp Best of 2013 The First Half: comic rankings

Amazon.co.jp revealed "Best of 2013 The First Half", its sales rankings calculated from the data acquired between December 1st 2012 and May 31st 2013.
Here is the rankings of comic books section.

Amazon.co.jp Best of 2013 The First Half: Light Novels rankings

Amazon.co.jp revealed "Best of 2013 The First Half", its sales rankings calculated from the data acquired between December 1st 2012 and May 31st 2013.
Here is the rankings of light novels section.

630,000 are "NEET" among the Japanese young

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on June 18th announced that the ratio of "NEET", who is not involved in job or school among young people marked the highest since it started collecting statistics in 1995.
The number of NEET is 630,000 between the age of 15 and 34.

Number of NEET in each generation
15-19:   90,000
20-24: 170,000
25-29: 180,000
30-34: 180,000


「ニート」 過去最多の２．３％　―NHKニュース
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20130618/k10015379311000.html


11 yo boy plunged into a train in Osaka

One out of five workers is over 60

Number of Japanese studying abroad students keeps decreasing

Japanese 20s lose over 20M yen by subscribing for the Welfare Pension

Educational expenses of Japanese family is 1.91M yen

LOTTERIA to introduce unusual twin burger

Fast food chain Lotteria will start serving "Shrimp Superb Twin Burger" from July 4th.
It is the combination of "Shrimp Burger" which have been served at the restaurants since 1977 and one of its best-selling hamburgers "Superb Cheese Burger". It will be served for 500 yen for a sandwich till July 31st.


見た目が斬新すぎる!!　ロッテリア、「エビ・絶品ツインバーガー」期間限定販売　7月4日より　―ウーマンエキサイト
http://woman.excite.co.jp/News/column/20130620/Escala_20130620_164511.html


McDonald's sales in a steep decline

KFC x Dragon Ball Z, Colonel Sanders in the battle suit

Order Domino's Pizza through Hatsune Miku App

Free BIG Mac. McDonald's 60 seconds rule

Mcdonald's Japan Hamburger General Election

Over 1,000 Starbucks in Japan

A Starbucks cafe at Dazaifu Tenman-gū shrine in Fukuoka

Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks on May 10th in Tokyo announced that the number of cafe in Japan will top 1,000 in 2013.
Japan would be the first region for the coffee chain to have more than 1,000 cafes except North America.
It opened the first cafe at Ginza, Tokyo in 1996, and had been managing 985 cafes across the nation at the end of this March. It plans to open approximately 65 more till the end of the next March.


スターバックス、年内に日本で１千店突破へ　北米以外では初　―SankeiBiz
http://www.sankeibiz.jp/business/news/130510/bsd1305101913009-n1.htm


"Silkworms Cafe" opened in Osaka

Which coffee chains do Japanese like?

Starbucks inside a city library

Coffee consumptions in Japan and the world

"McCafe" by Mcdonald's opened at Harajuku